Holographic storage products developed (yet again)

[Idontcare]

Holographic storage products developed

The first products using the technology will be 1TB or multi-terabyte drives for archival storage and will hit the market in two to three years, said Peter Lorraine, manager of the applied optics laboratory at General Electric at the EmTech conference in Boston this month.

Consumer drives will appear about two or more years later. "We think there is consumer fatigue over changing formats. Blu-ray has two to four years of life to go. After that, consumers will be clamouring for terabytes of storage."

http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...age-products-developed

(emphasis added)

What I really think is that the enthusiast is fatigued of these yet-another-holographic-storage-coming-soon hype pre-announcement announcement type articles. :roll:

Holographic is the one of the more over-used words in the storage industry. Can we please have less paradigm shift, more synergy, and pepper in whatever other buzzwords - oh almost for cloud-computing - is necessary to talk about your product that if launched today would already be inadequate let alone five years from now (if it even gets launched by then).

 

[tommo123]

storage hasn't been the same since CDs. drive sizes at the time were what, 2GBs? a CD was a good chunk of that. now with 2TB drives out, even a 50GB blu ray disk is pathetic in comparison. DVD's were equally pathetic compared to the hard disk capacity available.

Even if these holographic disks come out at 500GB capacity, it won't for a while any by then, they'll seem pathetic in comparison to the HD capacity we'll have.

 

[Elixer]

Capacity is only one problem, I would like to see what kind of speed we are talking about, and finally the price.

"...consumers will be clamouring for terabytes of storage." We already have the clamoring, but it is in price of terabytes of storage on SSD devices.

 

[jimhsu]

And transfer rates in comparison are even more pathetic. While disk capacities increased by a thousandfold, transfer rates have increased by what, 10 times?

 

[tommo123]

not even that. even dma 33 went up to 33 megs/sec. a top end drive (barring raptors) hover around a 100MB/sec or so right? i'd say it's increased by 3-4 times. no idea about access times mind